The unification of bengal in 1911 brought back the haunting reality to Muslims that, while not a separate motherland frozen in two Nation Theory, they might be subject to the tyranny of the majority, in enlightenment thinker John Stuart Mill’s phrasing,72 as a result of the Muslims would be too spread and too few in variety across the landmass to gift their positions in an exceedingly megastate that might swallow them as minorities.
The All-India Muslim League (advanced as the Muslim Alliance) was a political party built up in 1906 in British India.
Its solid promotion, from 1930 onwards, for the foundation of a isolated Muslim-majority nation-state, Pakistan, effectively driven to the segment of India in 1947 by the British Realm and include separate electorate.
The then British Prime Minister Attlee appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten as India's last viceroy, giving him the task to oversee British India's independence by June 1948, with the instruction to avoid partition and preserve a United India, but with adaptable authority to ensure a British withdrawal with minimal setbacks.
The Simla Conference of 1945 was a meeting between the Viceroy of India Lord Wavell and the major political leaders of British India at the Viceregal Lodge in Simla.
